“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(See the previous pages for tracings of the two envelope objects used in the 73rd experiment this evening. The beer can cap was enclosed within my folded note; the note was written on white paper in the same color ink used to make the tracings. Both items came from a gathering of friends at our apartment last Friday evening, October 7. The dark color on the end of the tab is carbon black from a candle flame. I did this deliberately on Friday evening during the gathering, in full view of everyone, for at that moment I decided to use this cap as the envelope object for the session tonight. Other details later.

(Jane was sleepy before the session, but did not tell me until after the envelope data had been obtained.

(Break at 9:27. Jane was dissociated as usual. She had continued to be restless, shifting about often. Her eyes opened frequently, her pace was slow, and she had little memory of what she had said.

(Break at 10:01. Jane had been out as usual, she said. Her eyes had remained closed during the experiment. Her pace had been much faster during the experiment than during the rest of the session. She said she was not aware of any of the data while she was giving it, or what it might mean, whether it was valid, etc.

(Jane had some images and these will be mentioned in place. This is a case where Jane had seen one of the two items making up the envelope objects very recently—the beer can cap, on Friday, October 7, three days ago. She had never seen my penned note bearing the date and identifying the brand of beer, Draft Beer. See pages 86-88 for tracings of the two envelope objects, and the beer can. I might add that Jane saw the beer can cap only in a casual way. There were quite a few lying about our living room Friday evening. Our candle was not lit until late that evening. When I picked up a cap to blacken in the flame I thought this would focus Jane’s conscious attention on this particular one, but she told me at break tonight that she hadn’t noticed my heating the cap, or else had forgotten it.

(“An advantage. Something to do with an advantage.” Jane read the article aloud to us, then Bill, Don and I tried tipping the table first. We sat at the south end of the table and made the vacant north end rise as we chanted away, per instructions in the article. What the three women didn’t know at the time was that the three of us were helping nature out a little, making the free end of the table rise by conscious physical pressure from our hands.

(“Maze”, meaning puzzlement, can also apply here, for when the three women tried tipping the table they did not succeed. Jane said this was very vexing and puzzling to them.

(“A Friday.” See the tracing of the note I enclosed with the beer can cap in the double envelopes, on page 86. The first line of my copy reads “Used Friday, Oct. 7/66.” This little note was written on Friday, October 7 also, after company left. [This session was held on Monday, October 10.]

(Jane felt subjectively sure this was the correct interpretation.

(“Connection with a large city. This Minneapolis connection, I do not know to what it refers. Again, a capital letter impression, a large M. Minneapolis, Mississippi—that length of word, with a place description connected.” Jane said she was sure these long names beginning with an M reflected her attempts to come through with Milwaukee, rather than Minneapolis. She tied up the Milwaukee name to our having beer to drink at the gathering Friday evening: and of course a beer can furnished the metal object used in the experimental envelope. See page 88.

(“A 36 and 46.” We believed this to be jumbled data, an effort to be specific. No one of either age, for instance, was present. Jane and I were closest at 37 and 47. Bill is 41, Peggy 38, Marilyn and Don in their early 20’s, etc. We were not sure Seth even intended a reference to age. There is a 10 difference between the two numbers, and also between the ages of Jane and me.

(“Placed fairly high on the item. Perhaps to the right, and small.” Jane said this was a reference to the position of the cap-ring against my note, while the two items were sealed between the two Bristol stiffeners and in the double envelopes. She had an image of their position while giving this data. It will be remembered that by this time Jane held the envelope in her lap; earlier she had held it against her forehead as she often does. To the right is a rough indication of the position she refers to, and which she was able to verify to some extent as she opened the envelopes at break. Remember the note was actually folded over the cap, like a sandwich; evidently the pressure of the two Bristol stiffeners and the two envelopes held the cap in the same position relative to the note.

(“The color red.” We cannot be sure. There could be many sources of red that Friday evening; for instance, the candle I used to deposit a coat of carbon black on the cap used as object, was a brilliant red; this was a large fat candle, and one we have used in previous experiments. We used it toward the close of the evening last Friday as an object upon which the six of us focused our attention. Half humorously, we attempted to increase the height of the candle flame by concentration, with no success. This was after we had finished the table tipping.

(Jane said at break that she had had an image of the initials RFB, and she wished mightily now that she had said so. As it is she gives several excellent pieces of data on the note, and the initials would have made her achievement even better. Jane said she didn’t speak the initials aloud because she thought they might refer to my father, and that this was a distortion. She knew she had already mentioned me, as “yourself”. My initials are the same as my father’s; but although I am a Junior, I seldom use it after my name.When I do I abbreviate it as Jr.

(“An armchair also.” This is interesting, and we believe refers to a wicker upright armchair that one of us sat in when at the table tipping game the last time of the evening. We have three black wooden kitchen chairs that ordinarily we press into service in the living room when company comes. These three chairs were used by the male and female trios as they sat at the table. When a fourth member was added to the last table tipping of the evening, featuring Jane, Bill, Don and myself, the wicker armchair was pressed into use since it was the only one available except for a Kennedy rocker. Neither Jane or I recall who sat in the armchair.

(She is quite positive of this. The sweater is one handmade by her mother, who is an invalid. We checked Jane’s memory on the rest of her wardrobe Friday evening. She wore tan Wrangler pants, white sneakers, and a tan sleeveless blouse. She pressed the pants before company came. The sleeveless blouse was a little too chilly and she put the blue sweater on. Jane had planned to wear this sweater Friday evening, and had already applied blue eye shadow to match.

(1st Question: What’s that about a Friday? “A Friday connected with the item. Perhaps a 7, or 17, day of the month. Or 7 PM.” Seth is quite correct. See the copy of the note on page 86. Friday, October 7,1966 is specifically mentioned on the note which was one of the two envelope objects. 7 PM doesn’t enter in however. Later note by RFB: Very good.

(“Connection with a stranger also.” Last Friday evening was connected with a stranger, in that a stranger, Georgia Mae Fields, wrote the article on table tipping in the November 1966 issue of Fate Magazine. The comments and instructions given in the article dominated the evening, certainly. Jane had been especially aware of the article since the previous Wednesday, October 5, when she first read it and decided to use it on Friday evening.

(3rd Question: Who is the other man mentioned besides myself? “We will try on this in a moment.” See the interpretation of the “two men” data at the top of page 96. As stated, Jane had an image of my initials on the note used as test object; but since my father’s initials are the same she feared she would distort the data by voicing the initials. Yet she knew that I was also connected with the envelope data.

(4th Question: What’s that about a skirmish? “Having to do with an argument.” Again see page 96. There were several skirmishes during the evening over whether the three men were faking the table tipping. There was also one between Jane and me after company left. This was not an argument, but Jane forcefully presented her idea to the effect that she and I were obligated not to clown around with effects in the psychic field. I agreed.

(“Also with a past war connection.” This is not as definite, but we think it applies to Bill Gallagher more than Don and me. All three of us have had military service, Bill and me in World War Two on active duty. Bill is quite a historian on the subject of war, and often discusses it. We believe the subject is almost always mentioned when we are together. The connection with the envelope objects being that Bill was of course present last Friday, October 7,1966.

(5th Question: Do you want to go back to that other man now? “We are having difficulty. Ruburt thinks of your father, but is afraid of distorting the information.” At break Jane said she again had the image of the RFB initials, and was more confused than ever. Later, she said, she realized the initials were meant to be taken literally, but instead she tried to interpret them; hence getting the idea of my father into the picture.

(“Oval also. Something oval.” Jane said that while giving this data she knew a small object was referred to, but did not say so. She thinks Seth was trying to get across the idea of the elongated egg shape of the ring and cap, thus:

(“Also 1861 or 1961.” See page 88. In small numerals there is the date 1842, within the circle enclosing the Indian head. Jane was fairly sure Seth was trying to get at this data; and she now felt that the 46 or 1946 data on page 96, and the 36 and 46 data on page 94, all reflected Seth’s attempts in this direction. Seth agrees after break.

The big A, distorted, referred to a tepee, you see. I tried to get the 1842 through, but there was some distortion from Ruburt in the separate 46 data. I was trying for 42. The 18 you see came out separately also.

(In the 217th session for December 13,1965, Seth told us Jane would earn about $3,500.00 on the ESP book this first year, and that this amount was to double within two years from this and other books. See Volume 5 of these sessions.

(End at 11:04. Jane was well dissociated. She said Seth could have continued indefinitely. She had that sense of energy she gets under such circumstances, when she knows “the energy is not mine.”)